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Robert Downey Jr. Says His Great Marvel Acting Went ‘Unnoticed Because of the Genre’; Rob Lowe Tells Him That Marvel ‘F—ed Everything Up’
Robert Downey Jr. says offers to return as Iron Man are not happening just yet.
Robert Downey Jr. appeared on Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast and said that his run as Tony Stark/ Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe marked some of the best acting of his career, but “it went a little bit unnoticed because of the genre.” The Oscar nominee played the character for 11 years, exiting the MCU in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” The franchise hit a box office rough patch last year with flops such as “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels,” the latter of which is the lowest-grossing MCU movie of all time. After Downey Jr.’s Marvel run came to an end, he took on the $175 million family tentpole “Dolittle.” It was an infamous box office flop when it opened in January 2020 just before the COVID pandemic and earned some of the worst reviews of the actor’s career.
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